Tiscover

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tiscover.com
Website logo
Tourism portal
languages DE
operator HRS
On-line 1995 (as TIS @ WEB )
http://www.tiscover.com/
DS Destination Solutions GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1991
Seat 50668 Cologne , Germany
management Timo Beyer
Branch Booking portal, tourism marketing

The tiscover.com is a tourism -Unterkunftsportal, supported by the DS Destination Solutions GmbH , based in Cologne, a subsidiary of the German HRS Group .

Company profile and business model

The company offers around 1.2 million bookable accommodations in the Alpine region and other holiday regions in Europe as well as software products for tourist destinations , organizations and providers (service providers).

Accommodation portal

The holiday portal for Alpine holidays was expanded in 2020 to include holiday accommodation in travel destinations in other European regions. 1.2 million offers - including hotels, guest houses, holiday apartments, holiday homes - can be booked online via the platform and supplemented with information on vacation regions and locations.

The portal is a marketing and sales channel for accommodations, marketing associations and destinations. The customer books on the Tiscover portal and in most cases pays later at the accommodation.

DS Destination Solutions

The team at DS Destination Solutions sees itself as a service provider for the online marketing of destinations and accommodation operators. The offer ranges from an online booking system (Property Management System) for holiday accommodation, to own accommodation booking portals and other SaaS products for tourist accommodation providers.

Company history

Tiscover started in 1991 as TIS GmbH (originally short for Tirol Informations System ). The website is one of the world's first tourism platforms on the Internet, and in 1995 TIS @ WEB was launched online.

In 2001–2004 the website www.tiscover.com was set up as a European platform with holiday information from Austria, Germany and Switzerland, and the country portals for Italy and Great Britain and a portal for South Africa were also launched. The concept of combining the web presence of the business customer and the platform as the booking agent was a "new form of Internet presence" and a leading European system in the eCommerce / eTourism sector

In March 2008, the takeover of Tiscover by the Cologne-based company HRS was announced at the International Tourism Exchange in Berlin . Tiscover was operated under the Alpenportal label until 2009 and expanded to include additional holiday regions in 2020.

Company data

  • 2001: In the first year of operation of tiscover.com, the site was the fifth most visited website in Austria.
  • 2006: In the week from 16 to 23 January 2006 12 million page views (were page views ), and approximately 1.3 million visits ( visits ) is counted, which was a record for tiscover.com.
  • 2007: 40% increase in bookings and inquiries in November and December (compared to the previous year)
  • 2008/2009: The changeover to the commission model, known as the “only long-term, viable” concept, resulted in major sales losses. In 2009 sales amounted to € 7.1 million (2008: −1.6 million, 2009: −1.1 million)

Awards

  • Enter Award 1998 and 1999
  • Austrian Tourism Innovation Prize 2000
  • Tourism Innovation Prize of the State of Vorarlberg 2002
  • British Resort Association Award 2004
  • Multimedia State Prize 2005 (Tourism and Health Category)
  • eBIZ Award 2005 and 2008
  • Crystal Web Award 2006, 2007 and 2008

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Occupational groups: Computer u. Information technology, advertising agency, trading in computers and office systems, trading in software (EDP programs), retailing, trading in computers in the production area
  2. ↑ Imprint | Tiscover.com. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ About us. In: Tiscover.com. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ About us | Tiscover.com. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Home | DS Destination Solutions. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ New Tiscover technology: This is how hotel groups can increase occupancy . In: Institute for Tourism and Leisure Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (ed.): ÖGAF Tourismus Memo . tape 10/01 . Vienna October 2001, data and facts → eTourism, p. 14th f ., Sp. 3 ( wu-wien.ac.at [PDF; 357 kB ; accessed on November 4, 2010]).
  7. ↑ Uniform tourism platform for Bavaria . In: ÖGAF Tourism Memo . tape 10/01 , data and facts → eTourism, p. 16 f ., Sp. 3 .
  8. ↑ Gerwin: Land Tirol sells Tiscover to HRS - background information and thoughts. (blog) In: eTourismus NewsBlog - www.etourismus.info. March 7, 2008, accessed November 4, 2010 .
  9. ↑ About us | Tiscover.com. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Data and facts . In: ÖGAF Tourism Memo . tape 10/01 , eBusiness, p. 13 , col. 3 .
  11. ↑ Konrad Plankensteiner, quoted in in Salzburger Nachrichten . November 3, 2010, p. 16 .
  12. ↑ SN / APA, according to the tourism portal Tiscover wants to turn things around . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . November 3, 2010, Economy Compact, p. 16 u .